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Jacqueline Wilson: Daydreams and Diaries
Jacqueline Wilson, the former childen’s laureate, shares her story of how she became a bestselling children’s author. Best known for her Tracy Beaker series, her work is celebrated in a new exhibition, Daydreams and Diaries, at Seven Stories in Newcastle
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Flashy or not, Wilson is making waves
Flashy or not, Wilson is making waves
The strange 2011 PGA Tour season continues with the surprising Mark Wilson collecting his second victory.
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Jacqueline Wilson books – My Secret Diary – Waterstone’s
www.waterstones.com Bestelling children’s author, Jacqueline Wilson, talks about her book, My Secret Diary. Synopsis This is a wonderfully written and engaging memoir of Jacqueline Wilson’s life as a teenager – her problems with her family, first love, her school life and her friends. Read extracts from her real secret teenage diaries and the stories she wrote as a teenager, to build up a fascinating picture of a real teenager and her inner life. Covering issues as diverse as the songs she danced to and the way she created beehive hairdos to her troubled school life and her parents’ problematic relationship. This follows on from the massive success of “Jacky Daydream”, her first memoir. Written in Jacqueline’s usual and inimitable style, this will be fascinating reading for her fans, and for anyone who’s interested in life in the UK in the Fifties and Sixties.
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Jacqueline Wilson: for the British Children
Jacqueline Wilson, born Jacqueline Aitken is a British author of children’s books. Her books have topped the bestsellers list in Britain and have won several prestigious awards. Many of her books have also been adapted for television and stage.
Born in Bath, Somerset in 1945, she initially started working in a Dundee-based publishing company, DC Thomson on a girl’s magazine Jackie. According to a legend, the magazine was named after the author but this was denied outrightly by the once involved with the magazine.
About the style of her writing one can say that her books are typically realistic and take the British children and their problems as the focal point. From the death of a pet to divorce, and from homelessness to abuse, all pertinent problems faced by children in UK are picked up by her in books such as The Cat Mummy, The Suitcase Kid, The Bed and Breakfast Star and Secrets. Majority of the books written by Jacqueline Wilson are in first person narrative. Her books that have been adapted as television series include Girls in Love, Best Friends and The Story of Tracy Beaker.
This noted writer has published great bestsellers and has got many awards to her credit, including Smarties Prize and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award. Her book The Illustrated Mum won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award as well as 1999 Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. Apart from that The Story of Tracy Beaker won the 2002 Blue Peter People’s Choice Award. Her other noted achievements inlcude the conferring of Order of the British Empire for services to literacy in schools. Also, in 2007 her contribution to children’s literature was recognised and she was awared an Honorary Doctorate by Roehampton University.
You don’t have to go too far to buy books by Jacqueline Wilson. Search the World Wide Web and her bestseller collection would be delivered at your door.